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Issue: Vol. 4950 No. 1: 29 Mar. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-03-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.1.11
Page range: 189–195
Abstract views: 134
PDF downloaded: 18

The invisibile becomes visible: X-ray micro-CT reconstruction of Aneurus damzeni sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae) from Eocene Baltic amber

Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Josef-Schraffl-Strasse 2a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības 13, Daugavpils LV-5401, Latvia.
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības 13, Daugavpils LV-5401, Latvia.
Hemiptera palaeontology Aneurinae flat bug new species Tertiary fossil resin X-ray microtomography

Abstract

The subfamily Aneurinae of the flat bug family Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) contains about 150 extant species assigned to seven genera, and seven fossil species of which six were described from Eocene Baltic amber and one from Cretaceous Burmese amber. A new species Aneurus damzeni sp. nov. from Baltic amber is described and illustrated using X-ray micro-computed tomography (μCT) reconstructing concealed morphological characters. A key to all five extant and fossil Aneurinae species with triangular scutellum is provided.

 

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